The PP justifies the privatization of La Corza Blanca and the Alto Campoo hotel business with losses of 4 million euros since 2019

The Government of Cantabria of the PP came out this Friday to the passing of the criticism for his decision to privatize two services from the public company Cantur such as the management of the La Corza Blanca Hotel, in Brañavieja, and the Alto Campoo hospitality facilities. And it has done so, arguing losses of 4 million euros since 2019.

According to the Minister of Tourism, Luis Martínez Abad, this outsourcing to the private company SNÖ Hotels It will allow the Cantabrians to save those losses. Something that, however, has been found with the rejection of the Cantur works council and with the criticism from the forms from the Hospitality Association.

The PP Government, among whose first decisions was that of raise the salary of the entire executive leadership by almost 7%has stated that with the money saved from losses “We can build a school or three health centers in the municipalities of Cantabria. In the end, this is not paid by Cantur, it is paid by the citizens of Cantabria.”

LOSSES

Specifically, the losses of the facilities amounted to 784,325 euros in 2019; in 2020, to 732,331 euros; in 2021, to 667,084 euros; in 2022, to one million euros; and in 2023 to 849,889 euros. Martínez Abad has pointed out that understand the “fear” of employees that this change could be the first step in an “externalization” of services, but he has already told them that “definitely and emphatically not.”

“The decision we made regarding outsourcing the management of La Corza Blanca is motivated by the fact that does not affect a single worker in the first place“No Cantur worker will suffer any modification in their employment relationship with the company and the rights of the workers will not be harmed to any extent.” “I have told you and I give it to you in writing,” he assured.

WORKERS

Furthermore, he has questioned that the works council – which locked itself in the headquarters of the public company on Wednesday after the announcement of the outsourcing until the counselor came to hold a meeting – began by saying that this step affected five workers and ended “by 70 or 90”. “Neither the Rhine nor the Sardinero together have these workers. It is not true, it does not affect any worker,” he insisted.

Likewise, the counselor has defended that the commitment to this specialized company – present in ski resorts such as Formigal or Baqueira Beret – “it will generate wealth” in the Campoo regionsince it will generate 40 “stable and sustained” jobs with local personnel and will buy raw materials from nearby suppliers.

Likewise, it works for attract visitors outside the snow season or athletes who want to prepare their seasons, as well as school trips or even religious tourism. To begin with, the facilities will go from being open for three months – “in the best of cases” – to nine.

HOSTELIER REVIEWS

The Minister of Tourism has spoken about this matter to questions from the press after presenting his department’s budgets for 2025 and has also responded to the criticism expressed in some media by the president of the Cantabria Hospitality Business Association (AEHC), Eduardo Lamadrid, who has complained about not having been informed of the outsourcing before announcing publicly.

“I do not ask Eduardo Lamadrid to give me information about what his agreements are every time he acquires a facility,” responded Martínez Abad, who said that the president of the hoteliers wrote to him this morning to tell him that heThe transfer to SNÖ Hotels “seems a success” and that “he is sorry for having made those statements”.

“I haven’t answered him because What he did yesterday seems disloyal to me after the conversations we constantly have. I don’t understand. This information is public, we are providing it here, we have nothing to hide. We would have given it to him, but to say that we should have notified him… he does not usually notify me when he is negotiating the acquisition of a new center,” he concluded. In addition, he clarified that “it is not necessary to hold a contest” for companies to present themselves and it has not been done because “we were looking for someone specialized in the sector and we were looking for the number one, and we have managed to get the number one to bet on Cantabria.”